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Marshall Avery Howe records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-15
Scope and Contents

The Marshall Avery Howe Records documents career with the New York Botanical Garden, especially his research on Algae, Hepatics and the cultivation of Dahlias. It contains correspondence, research notes and administrative memoranda and specimen identifications, exchanges and loans, photographic prints and lantern slides. The collection is arranged into three series.

Bracketed numbers indicate unofficial Box and Folder numbers.

Dates: 1892 - 1936; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1934

Marshall Avery Howe papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-037
Scope and Contents

The M.A. Howe papers documents his domestic and pubic life outside NYBG; including newspaper clippings of his botanical and administrative activities. It contains correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, lecture notes, manuscripts and photographs. The collection is arranged in four series.

Dates: 1879-1936

Records of the Institute of Economic Botany

 Collection
Identifier: RG-18-01
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, publication manuscripts, photographs and illustrations. It contains documents relating to the founding of IEB, its ongoing activities and includes materials on the research projects with Pfizer, Merck, and AID. Includes Biosphere audio and video.

Dates: 1981 - 2004

Howard S. Irwin records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-16
Scope and Contents The Howard S. Irwin Records cover the entire period of his employment at the NYBG. There are also papers from the late 1950’s concerning the NYBG Brazilian expedition specimens, from which he helped to identify while in graduate school as well as a file called parting thoughts written to Board member Thomas Hubbard, which Dr. Irwin wished to have included with this collection. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence. Included herein are also maps, manuscripts, field notebooks,...
Dates: 1944 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1980

Eugene Jablonski Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-17
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, index cards, records of loans and determinations and a manuscript related to Dr. Jablonski’s study and reorganization of the Euphorbiaceae at the NYBG. Correspondents include Bassett Maguire, Harold Moldenke and Julian Steyermark.

Dates: 1959 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1969

Jeanne R. Janish papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-038
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence between Janish and the numerous publishers and authors that she worked with as well as letters to students of botanical illustration seeking her advice on drawing techniques, as well as many of her sketches and drawings. The sketches and drawings have been removed from the archives and are located in the Art and Illustration Collection.

This collection is arranged in three series and spans her career from 1948-1980.

Dates: 1902-1998

David D. Keck records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-18
Scope and Contents

The David Keck collection contains correspondence from 1930 to 1958, but predominantly from the years between 1950 and 1958. The remainder of the collection includes notes on species determinations and several manuscripts.

Dates: 1930 - 1958

Boris A. Krukoff records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-19
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Krukoff collection is devoted to extensive notes, reprints, clippings, and background materials for his research on medicinal plants. It also includes correspondence and memoranda on the various drug plant projects he conducted at Merck, literature surveys and reference books. Four albums contain photographs from Merck projects in Guatamala and Costa Rica.The organization of the collection follows Krukoff's original exhaustive lists. Many of the sixteen series...
Dates: 1926 - 1983

Carlton B. Lees records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-07-02
Scope and Contents Papers consist largely of correspondence; also memos, budgets, lists, reports, and news releases generated by Lees' activities as Senior Vice-President for Horticulture. Topics include the operation of the Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum in Millbrook, N.Y., events and programs in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, attendance at conferences, and others. Institutional correspondents include the Garden Club of America, Horticultural Society of New York, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Central...
Dates: 1970 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1983

William Henry Leggett papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-039
Scope and Contents

Collection consist primarily of correspondence with colleagues during his tenure as Editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Prominent correspondents include Asa Gray, George Clinton, William Denslow, George Thurber, and John Williamson. Subjects include the exchange and determination of specimens, the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and the death of John Torrey. Research notes on Lechea, Compositae, and plants growing in New York.

Dates: 1862-1883

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Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 2
Anderson, A. P. (Alexander Pierce) 2
Becker, Herman F. (Herman Frederick), 1907-1985 2
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Durand, Elias, 1794-1873 2
Evans, Alexander W. (Alexander William), 1868-1959 2
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 2
Hollick, Charles Arthur, 1857-1933 2
Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956 2
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 2
Macoun, James M. (James Melville), 1862-1920 2
Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 2
Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 2
Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1854-1923 2
Pittier, Henri, 1857-1950 2
Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1937 2
Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928 2
Small, John Kunkel, 1869-1938 2
Sullivant Moss Society 2
Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902 1
American Fern Society 1
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1
American Iris Society 1
Anchel, Marjorie 1
Anderson, Gladys P. (Gladys Pomeroy), 1888- 1
Andrews, Albert Le Roy, 1878-1964 1
Asheshov, Igor Nicholas, 1891- 1
Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819 1
Barksdale, Alma Whiffen, 1916-1981 1
Barneby, Rupert C. 1
Beals, A. Tennyson (1870-1955) 1
Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957 1
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985 1
Best, G. N. (George Newton), 1846-1926 1
Bigelow, Howard E. (Howard Elson), 1923-1987 1
Blake, S. F. (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959 1
Borin, John G., 1905-1993 1
Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 1
Bu'Lock, J. D. (John Desmond) 1
Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 1
Burt, E. A. (Edward Angus), 1859-1939 1
Chamberlain, Edward B. (Edward Blanchard), 1878-1925 1
Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982 1
Clokey, Ira W. (Ira Waddell), 1878-1950 1
Cutting, Olivia Murray, 1855-1949 1
Darlington, William, 1782-1863 1
Davis, P. H. (Peter Hadland) 1
Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867 1
Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953 1
Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842 1
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887 1
Engelmann, George, 1809-1884 1
Everett, Harry H. (Harry Harding), 1875-1949 1
Fawcett, William, 1851-1926 1
Feely, Muriel Bolte, 1920-2011 1
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 1
Greene, B. D. (Benjamin Daniel), 1793-1862 1
Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866 1
Grimes, James W., 1953- 1
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 1
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 1
Holton, Isaac F. (Isaac Farwell) 1
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 1
Horticultural Society of New York 1
Howell, John Thomas, 1903-1994 1
Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller, 1882-1963 1
Irwin, Howard S. 1
Isely, Duane, 1918-2000 1
James, Olivia Bayard, 1892-1963 1
Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 1
Knieskern, Peter D., 1798-1871 1
Lellinger, David B. 1
Lewis, G. P. 1
León, Hermano, 1871- 1
Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.) 1
MacDougall, Thomas 1
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 1
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium 1
New-York Horticultural Society 1
Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890 1
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 1
Raper, John R. 1
Sagra, Ramón de la, 1798-1871 1
Sandwith, Noel Yvri, 1901-1965 1
Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834 1
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 1
Spellenberg, Richard 1
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989 1
Sturtevant, Robert Swan, 1892-1955 1
Sullivant, William Starling, 1803-1873 1
Sørensen, N. A. (Nils Andreas), 1909-1987 1
Tiehm, Arnold 1
Torrey, John, 1796-1873 1
Torrey, Raymond H. 1
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